Recruitment is a pain point for a lot of organisations – it is hard to good people, especially high quality, experienced staff, and especially when not for profit organisations are unable to meet the wage conditions of the for profit sector, or where not for profits have to compete against each other with varying capacities to be able to offer attractive conditions. 

However, when it comes to safeguarding, recruitment is one area where we can’t cut corners. We have to invest the time to screen out those who are unsafe and unsuitable to work with children or vulnerable adults. We can’t be over relying on our working with children checks or disability worker screening or criminal history checking. We need to dig in and have active discussions throughout the recruitment process about safeguarding, exploring motivations and strategies for maintaining professional boundaries. 

We also need to be training those who are doing recruitment so they know the red flags and sending the message that we don’t cut corners on recruitment.

We would love to share our strategies for great practice for safe recruitment – our November webinar will deep dive into this topic (see link below to register). And you can also reach out for our top ten tips in safe recruitment fact sheet – drop me an email on sarah.lim@bbsafe.com.au. It covers employees and volunteers.

“Because of the tools and strategies I learned with BBSafe, we were actually able to identify someone who was applying to work with us, who was being less than honest in the information they were providing to try to hide some past inappropriate behaviour. I’m so glad that we insisted on following our procedure and living out our commitment to safeguarding. We were able to avoid exposing our kids to someone who had crossed professional boundaries in the past.” Rebecca, child related service

Free November webinar 
Join us for our free monthly webinar 28 November, 12pm AEST/1pm AEDT on Recruiting for safety where we will deep dive on good safeguarding practice in recruitment. Register here:  https://events.humanitix.com/bbsafe-free-safeguarding-webinar-or-safe-recruitment-practice 

Join us for the webinar if you can, and feel free to share this newsletter and the invitation with colleagues.